Top 10 Acting Oscar Wins of ALL TIME

What are the top 10 acting Oscar wins of ALL TIME? Here is my ranking! #oscars #academyawards #topten #bestactor #bestactress #alltime #brianrowevideo

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TOP 10 ACTING OSCAR WINS OF THE 1940s
1. Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
2. Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
3. Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
4. Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress
5. Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
6. Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
7. Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
8. James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
9. Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
10. Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street

TOP 10 ACTING OSCAR WINS OF THE 1930s
1. Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind
2. Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
3. Bette Davis, Jezebel
4. Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
5. Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind
6. Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips
7. Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory
8. Wallace Beery, The Champ
9. Luise Rainer, The Great Ziegfeld
10. Spencer Tracy, Captains Courageous

[trediaz]

Kathy Bates win for Misery was one of a kind. She was a woman in her 40s, who was having a breakout role, in a horror film. Plus, she doesn't look like the "typical Hollywood beauty" that wins Best Actress. There was so much going against Kathy Bates but she won. Could not deny her.

[lilymarie]

I have only watched 'Sophie's Choice' one time. That scene where she had to choose between her children, absolutely tore me to shreds emotionally, so much that I don't ever want to see it again.

[pentameteriamb]

F. Murray Abraham's portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus was my favorite Oscar win.

[pnutbutrncrackers]

Could not agree more with regarding Jack Nicholson's portrayal in Cuckoo's Nest as one of cinema's all-time greatest, but would quickly add that that entire cast is so good in that picture it's astonishing. One of the best ensemble dramatic products ever captured on celluloid.

[SadhuBiochemist]

Tragically Vivian Leigh died too early. It was tuberculosis from what I read. Her short career showed enormous talent.

[brenoleitebrito]

It will be hard for someone to ever beat Meryl Streep's Sophie's Choice acting. It's simply perfect. There's no Meryl there, you only see Sophie.

[lenwelch]

Heath ledger performance in brokeback mountain was so moving, showing love is love- his walking away from his love spills into an alley and his heartbreak is crush8ng.

[gidgitvonlarue]

Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind is one of the most deserving Oscars ever! No doubt you know the history of the studio changing directors mid filming from a 'womens' director to a more Clark Gable director that treated the women quite harshly. You cannot tell watching that movie. Vivien was just brilliant!

[wsidechris]

After 40 years I still have to say Timothy Hutton in "Ordinary People" is one of the most earned wins of all time. He was only 19 years old and had only been in a few TV movies, but carried the immense weight of this film. He never sank into melodrama and he carried the tragedy, humor, awkwardness yet ordinary-ness of Conrad Jarrett. It's one of those performances that, like you describe with Charlize Theron, could never be topped no matter what he does.

[chereecargill]

I can't even watch Sophie's Choice again. The ending tore my heart out! I love all of her films but this one affected me the most.

[kevinpoole]

Scarlett and Blanche are both tortured (in different ways) legends for the ages—they both share Ms Leigh’s cocked right eyebrow, after all, as well as her considerable private suffering which breathes life into both performances. Thank you!

[jamesfreeman]

Of course Hattie McDaniel performance in GWTW is as powerful and heart wrenching as Ms. Leigh or Mr. Gables was. When McDaniel is climbing the steps with Melianie and telling her how the baby's death has affected Scarlett & Rhett, I remember crying along with Mammy as that scene played out. McDaniel played a small part in GWTW, somehow, someway with all her talent was a key character in GWTW.
I have to mention The Whale and Brandon Fraser's performance. It is a stunning movie, and Fraser's performance is iconic.

[vrxmlmo]

In her autobiography, Elizabeth Taylor said that "Virginia Woolf" was her Hamlet, her top acting performance of them all.

[lemoncrash]

Good list. You forgot Katherine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. The “I could peel you like a pear, and God himself would call it justice” speech was a master class of acting.

[lonellfletcher]

I think its okay that Theron won't top Monster. It did its job; it changed our perception of her and what she was capable of as an actress, and her follow-ups have now cemented her as an ACTOR. Her legacy is set.

[davidh]

When you announced Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice as your #1 Oscar win, I immediately yelled "Yep!" She did everything in that movie but sell popcorn to the audience.

[ParkAvenueAssociates]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for recognizing the incredible talent of Vivien Leigh in two of the greatest performances of all time as well the personal sacrifice she gave TO BE Blanche DuBois! Your post is so much in sync with my own tastes it makes me grateful to have found you on YouTube. I saw the Seattle premiere of "Sophie's Choice." Meryl Streep's incredible performance had me walking around for three days----and I still vividly remember being bowled over by the power she brought to that performance.

[lenwelch]

Liz Taylor and Vivian Leigh both have a fire and passion that all of us feel represented with life’s ups and downs . They show feelings that very few peo0le would want to ever display but immediately relate too. They knew how to portray without over acting.

[arontamas]

Sophie's choice is unbeatable. That's the proof the acting can be also objective when it comes to performances like these.
Pure perfection!

[tateandemmy]

Vivien Leigh is just brilliant in those two roles!